Java developers around the world have been accustomed to JUnit's design decision of creating a new instance of a TestCase class for each individual test. Now, Cedric was one of those who didn't warm up to the idea and came up with his own TestNG unit testing framework that reuses the same instance between individual test methods. NUnit, the JUnit "port" for .NET, also followed the reuse approach.

Now, it looks like Jim Newkirk is having second thoughts. Maybe NUnit 3.0 will come back to the JUnit camp in this regard.

Rachel Davies reports about an XPDay session where the idea about establishing a suite of environment tests could accomplish all sorts of nice things. The idea is a bit similar to the installation tests mentioned in Mike Clark's excellent Pragmatic Project Automation.